Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] [adv] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have been frequent demands for a single system and investigations of its possibility ; for after the introduction and spread of comprehensive schools it was clearly both inconvenient and divisive that pupils within the same school should be classified either as fit to take the GCE or fit only for the CSE . |
| 2 | Do you combine it with the weekly ‘ big shop ’ at Sainsbury 's , wait until you fall ill or hang on for the January sales ? |
| 3 | ‘ So off I went , and when I got to the Severn Bridge , I thought to myself , ‘ I can go straight on and take him to Potter 's and get about four hundred quid carcase value , or turn right for the University and probably have nothing … |
| 4 | All day excursion , the classic Brighton holiday outing with the afternoon on the Island £15.95 ( under 16 's £8 off ) or stay aboard for the afternoon cruise round Portsmouth Harbour £19.95 ( under 16 's £10 off ) . |
| 5 | Charlotte strained her ears to hear whether he would slip out by the side door and make straight for the garage at the rear of the house for his car , but instead she heard the crisp , light rapping of his heels on the oak staircase . |
| 6 | Gather up your belongings and make calmly for the door . |
| 7 | She has deservedly won the respect of everyone in the field of movement and dance both for the Society and herself . |
| 8 | We live , act , move , are temporarily satisfied , enjoy and suffer principally for the satisfaction of desire . |
| 9 | An attack would have been tantamount to committing suicide , so reluctantly Stirling gave orders to leave the town and head back for the rendezvous with the LRDG . |
| 10 | See how , sometimes , the largest fish will hover at the tail-end of the shoal , while his tasters — or so it seems — accept almost every likely-looking morsel , only to leave some morsels alone as though there was something special about them , and fit only for the King . |
| 11 | When Bathsheba ran out of the house the previous night , Troy first replaced the coffin lid , then went upstairs to lie on his bed and wait miserably for the morning . |
| 12 | As the fans tune in and line up for the battle ahead . |
| 13 | And watch out for the Sains-berries on the day . |
| 14 | And watch out for the name Tomo Cesen figuring increasingly on the honours board of daring deeds . |
| 15 | Provide the best food and water quality , and watch out for the others attacking it . |
| 16 | ‘ At Elland Road I was expected to go and win the ball and that was about all they liked ! ! — get the ball up to the big front men and look around for the knock downs ’ ( Batts obviously did nt look very hard cos he did nt find many ! ! ) |
| 17 | He began to tidy it up and look around for the plastic bag . |
| 18 | They chatter together like fiesty and excited skunks , and look constantly for the opportunity to move in . |
| 19 | Go down Via Francesco Sforza , and look out for the façade of the church of San Giovanni in Conca , the majority of what remains of a church that once stood in Piazza Missori . |
| 20 | ( And look out for the Somerset Companion Map Leaflet with vouchers to the value of £20 and over ) . |
| 21 | ‘ Be cool and look out for the ladies , ’ he says . |
| 22 | And look out for the chough — a rare member of the crow family — which feeds on the clifftop vegetation . |
| 23 | And look out for The Zebra in Your Stable , the Christmas special on BBC1 — details in tv listings on page 65 . |
| 24 | Try to pick a line through the birch forest on the northern slopes and look out for the wreckage of a World War II aeroplane on the north-eastern side . |
| 25 | ‘ And the true order of going , or being led by another , to the things of love , is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty , using these as steps only … ’ |
| 26 | and on his own , and said to mum , come up here and get away for the weekend , cos it 's a hell of a burden to carry , with no release , I mean even going on holiday , she has to book it , organise his packing , wash it , you name it , . |
| 27 | The section only applies to public houses ( for meaning of " public house , " see s.139(1) ) in respect of which applications for Sunday opening have not been granted under Sched. 4 , and , in respect of which , part of the premises have been adapted and set aside for the provision of the customary main meal at mid-day or in the evening or both , The procedure for applying the section to the premises is similar to the procedure under 5,57 , Before a licence-holder can apply the section to his premises , he has to obtain a declaration of satisfaction from the licensing board that part of his premises are adapted and used or intended to be used for habitually providing the customary main meal at mid-day or in the evening and that the adapted part does not contain a bar counter ( subs . |
| 28 | He found that he enjoyed going to a parish to confirm the children , or to institute a new incumbent , and stay afterwards for the sausage rolls or sandwiches at the bunfight and chat up the people with a mixture of silence and belly-bumping laughter and beams all round and leg-pulling but with care and affection . |
| 29 | The only thing they wanted to hear was that the prophet had said that everyone could go to Zap Zone and stay there for the rest of their natural lives . |
| 30 | And you had to get out on the floor that catered for your particular dominant moral propensity , and stay there for the whole of Eternity . |